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15. I. 1920

DeputyPeople’s Commissar for Education

Pleaseissue orders for our state libraries (the Rumyantsev
Museum, the Petrograd Public Library, and others)
immediately to begin collecting and keepingall whiteguardnewspapers (Russian and foreign). Please give me a draft
of the order proscribing that allmilitaryand civil
authorities are to collect and hand over these newspapers to the
state
libraries.[1]

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, C.P.C.

P.S.Perhaps you would find it appropriate in these
orders (or better separately?) to order and check on the
collection ofcomplete setsof our newspapers since 1917.

[1]Atits meeting on January 17, 1920, the Council of People’s
Commissars endorsed a decision for the collection of whiteguard
literature. The decision was published (in part) inPravdaand inIzvestiaNo. 15, January 24, 1920.